Abstract: By the combined use of reduced integration and addition of non‐conforming displacement modes, a highly effective new plate element has been established. The displacement field of this element is formed by adding nonconforming ...

Abstract: A rectangular plate element with rectangular cutouts was developed. The stiffness matrix of the element is formed by numerical integration in which the region of the cutout in the element is excluded during the integration ...

Abstract: This paper develops a simplified, yet effective, algorithm for optimum reinforced concrete (RC) member design. After construction of the data base of predetermined reinforced concrete sections that are arranged in the order ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the bending moments and shear forces that are induced in the members of the frame by the differential column shortening, taking into account the construction sequence and the sequential application ...

Abstract: For the efficient finite-element wind analysis, using the optimal mesh is one of the most important factors. The optimal mesh can be obtained when the errors of the solution are distributed uniformly over the entire domain. ...

Abstract: A variable-node flat shell element is presented. The element has a variable number of midside nodes and each node has a drilling freedom. The element has been developed basically by combining a membrane element with drilling ...

Abstract: The inclusion of the higher order terms in the Taylor's series expansion of the status variable is presented in the formulation for stochastic analysis with the weighted integral method. Generally, in almost all the numerical ...